How to Create Stratis Filesystem & Pool in RHEL 8

If you keep track of Linux news and announcement, you must be aware that “Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8” has been available for general use and comes with the facility of Stratis Filesystem, which is basically easy to use tool for your local storage management for Linux. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create Stratis Filesystem and pool. We will also show how to mount it, so keep reading this tutorial.

What is Stratis?

Stratis Storage is a local storage management solution for Linux Operating System and aims to ease the work of a system administrator by advance storage options like snapshots, thin provisioning, pool-based management, monitoring, Tiering, etc. apart from being very simple to use.

Stratis is a user-space daemon that configures and monitors existing components from Linux’s device-mapper subsystem, as well as the XFS filesystem. Stratis Pool which is the central attraction of Stratis tool is a collection of one or more local disks or partitions. Once the pool is created, administrators can create volumes.

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